Sulfurovum

Sulfurovum is a genus within the Campylobacterota which was first described in 2004 with the isolation and description of the type species Sulfurovum lithotrophicum from Okinawa trough hydrothermal sediments.^[1] Named for their ability to oxidize sulfur and their egg-like shape, cells are gram-negative, coccoid to short rods. Mesophilic chemolithoautotrophic growth occurs by oxidation of sulfur compounds coupled to the reduction of nitrate or molecular oxygen.^[1]

Sulfurovum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Campylobacterota
Class:	Epsilonproteobacteria
Order:	Campylobacterales
Family:	Sulfurovaceae
Genus:	Sulfurovum Inagaki et al. 2004 [1]
Type species
Sulfurovum lithotrophicum[2] Inagaki et al. 2004
Species
S. aggregans S. denitrificans S. indicum S. lithotrophicum S. mangrovi S. rifiae "Ca. S. sediminum"

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[4][5][6]	120 single copy marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[7][8][9]
Sulfurovum S. aggregans Mino et al. 2014 S. denitrificans Mori, Yamaguchi & Hanada 2018 S. lithotrophicum Inagaki et al. 2004 S. indicum Xie et al. 2019 S. rifiae Giovannelli et al. 2016	Sulfurovum S. indicum S. lithotrophicum S. rifiae

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Inagaki, Fumio; Ken Takai; Kenneth H. Nealson; Koki Horikoshi (2004-09-01). "Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the ε-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (5): 1477–1482. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.03042-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15388698. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
2. A.C. Parte; et al. "Sulfurovum". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2023-09-09.
3. Sayers; et al. "Sulfurovum". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
4. "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
5. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
6. "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
7. "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
8. "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
9. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.